Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This is the model that accompanied William Thomson's 1880 application for an American patent for an improved mariner’s ...

What is the difference between a barnacle and a binnacle? Anyone? Anyone? Well, yes, both are related to the sea, but the difference ends there. A barnacle is a small marine animal that likes to ...

Question: Enclosed is photo of something called a binnacle given during the 1920s to my distant relative by a man who was a Delaware River pilot. It is 20½ inches high, 13½ inches wide and 8¼ inches ...